Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Yard Birds
Author: Philip LevyPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813949661
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
In 2009, the New Yorker declared chickens the "it bird" and heralded "the return of the backyard chicken." This honor occurred as, a host of American cities were changing their laws to allow chickens in residents’ backyards. Philip Levy, a sometime chicken keeper himself, mixes cultural history with husbandry to chronicle the weird and wonderful story of Americans’ urban chickens. From the streets of Brooklyn to council chambers in Albany to the beat of Key West’s Chicken Nuisance Patrol, yard birds are an important and growing part of American city life. Part history, part travelogue, and part reportage, Yard Birds takes the reader on a tour-de-force journey across America, past and present, to profile its urban chickens housed in luxury coops or dying at yearly rituals. What emerges is a compelling picture of city chickens that can both serve as hipster status symbols and guarantee that the families keeping them have at least something to eat. Levy’s smart and entertaining investigation of the contemporary urban chicken craze reveals that poultry flocks were historically an integral part of America’s urban spaces; chickens have simply returned home now, some to very fancy roosts.
Miscellaneous Publications
Author: University of Alaska (College)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Cyclopedia of American Government
Author: Andrew Cunningham McLaughlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Washington Public Documents
Author: Washington (State)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 1616
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Washington Territory Reports ...
Author: Washington Territory. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Gender Remade
Author: Sandra F. VanBurkleoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316473031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
Gender Remade explores a little-known experiment in gender equality in Washington Territory in the 1870s and 1880s. Building on path-breaking innovations in marital and civil equality, lawmakers extended a long list of political rights and obligations to both men and women, including the right to serve on juries and hold public office. As the territory moved toward statehood, however, jury duty and constitutional co-sovereignty proved to be particularly controversial; in the end, 'modernization' and national integration brought disastrous losses for women until 1910, when political rights were partially restored. Losses to women's sovereignty were profound and enduring - a finding that points, not to rights and powers, but to constitutionalism and the power of social practice as Americans struggled to establish gender equality. Gender Remade is a significant contribution to the understudied legal history of the American West, especially the role that legal culture played in transitioning from territory to statehood.